It’s time to look at the book I read in July!
The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery
★★★★.5
Three strangers look to lease a store space on the California coast, but the space is too big for just one. So, The Boardway Bookshop is born. It becomes part bookshop, part gift stop, part bakery….and the three strangers soon become friends. Bree, who runs the bookshop, guards her heart from love because she was hurt by her brilliant, but less than caring parents, and then, was betrayed by her late husband. When she meets Harding, Ashley’s handsome brother, will she be able to work through the hurt and find love? Ashley runs the bakery. She is madly in love with her boyfriend but soon finds that he never intends to marry her. Can she live with not having what she has always wanted, or does she need to move on? Mikki runs the gift shop and has the divorce thing figured out. She and her ex-husband (and her ex in-laws) get along great and even spend some holiday dinners together, for the kids of course. But, when she meets a new man, the way she looks at herself (as well as the way others look at her) changes. Despite everything they have going on in life, every Friday evening, at sunset, they meet on the beach in front of The Boardwalk Bookshop for a champagne toast, where their bond grows stronger, and they encourage each other to be better versions of themselves. The Boardwalk Bookshop is about friendship, love, family, and of course, books!
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